{{Short description|Internet "language" and slang}} {{Redirect2|Doggo|Doggos|the animal|Dog|actual dog language|Dog communication}} thumb|An example of a "Doggo" in DoggoLingo.
'''DoggoLingo''' is an Internet "language" that is created from word conversion, meme lexicon, and onomatopoeia. Emerging in the 2010s,<ref name="dict"/> DoggoLingo is implied to be a dog's own idiom, and is presented as a canine's thought process. Elyse Graham, assistant professor at Stony Brook University, describes DoggoLingo as "upbeat, joyful, and clueless in a relentlessly friendly way".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/08/01/doggolingo/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402163135/https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/08/01/doggolingo/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-04-02|title=The weird underside of DoggoLingo - OxfordWords blog|date=2017-08-01|work=OxfordWords blog|access-date=2018-02-26|language=en-UK}}</ref>
== Structure and usage == thumb|A dog sticking its tongue out is performing a ''blep'' DoggoLingo appends various diminutive suffixes "-o", "-er", "-ino" to existing English words (e.g. ''dog'' turns into ''doggo'',<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Boddy|first=Jessica|date=April 23, 2017|title=Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/23/524514526/dogs-are-doggos-an-internet-language-built-around-love-for-the-puppers|access-date=October 3, 2021}}</ref> ''pup'' turns into ''pupper''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/pupper|title=PUPPER (noun) definition and synonyms|website=Macmillan Dictionary|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref>) as well as DoggoLingo words that have been created (e.g. ''pupper'' turns into ''pupperino'').<ref name="dict">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/doggo/|title=What Does doggo Mean?|website=Everything After Z by Dictionary.com|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref> DoggoLingo relies heavily upon onomatopoeia: Words such as ''mlem'' or ''blep'' describe the action of a dog sticking out its tongue, or other forms of facial expression.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What Does mlem Mean? |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/mlem/ |access-date=2020-04-10 |website=Everything After Z by Dictionary.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-13 |title=blep Meaning & Origin {{!}} Slang by Dictionary.com |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/blep/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Dictionary.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
Much like a creole language, DoggoLingo follows a similar rudimentary style to create its verbs (e.g. ''doin me a'' in place of present participles with the speaker as object, such as ''doin me a scare'' "scaring me") and adjectives (e.g. ''heckin'' in place of degree modifiers such as ''extremely''). ''Heck'' is frequently used in place of more conventional expletives.<ref name=":2" />
Some words also come from eye dialect spellings of English words, such as ''fren'', meaning "friend".<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Golbeck |first1=Jennifer |last2=Buntain |first2=Cody |chapter=This Paper is About Lexical Propagation on Twitter. H*ckin Smart. 12/10. Would Accept! |title=2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) |date=2018 |pages=587–590 |doi=10.1109/ASONAM.2018.8508445 |isbn=978-1-5386-6051-5 |s2cid=53080084 }}</ref> In 2023, an analyst from the Southern Poverty Law Center noted the term ''fren'' has been adopted as a deliberately "innocuous" and "baby talk" self-description by the far-right online, with the word being used as a backronym for "far-right ethnonationalist".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tangalakis-Lippert |first1=Katherine |title=Elon Musk pulled Twitter from the EU's anti-disinformation agreement and continues to troll with alt-right memes and dogwhistles. It could be a sign he'll close the site to Europe completely. |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-pull-twitter-european-commission-digital-services-act-2023-5 |access-date=11 June 2023 |work=Business Insider}}</ref>
== Origin == DoggoLingo emerged in the 2010s.<ref name="dict"/> Various social media accounts such as WeRateDogs on Twitter and Dogspotting on Facebook, as well as social news aggregation and imageboard websites like 4chan, Reddit, or Tumblr have aided in popularizing the use of DoggoLingo by consistently using or hosting content that uses the lingo on their Internet pages. In 2014, the Dogspotting Facebook account gained popularity, especially in Australia where adding "-o" to the end of words is also a feature of Australian slang.<ref name=":0" /> Usage of DoggoLingo peaked around 2017.<ref name="dict"/>
Linguist Gretchen McCulloch characterized the language as "taking on characteristics of how people would address their animals in the first place", and noted that it was used by people talking as themselves online, in contrast to the mid-2000s lolcat trend where images of cats were captioned as if the cat were speaking.<ref name=":0" />
== Other animals ==
{{redirects here|Snek|the mechanical fastener known as a sneck|Latch}}
[[file:Morelia spilota head.jpg|thumb|In DoggoLingo, a venomous snake or a constrictor like this carpet python may be known as a "danger noodle".]]
Many other animals are referred to differently in DoggoLingo: for example, one might refer to a snake as a ''snek'', ''nope rope'', or ''danger noodle'',<ref>{{cite web | access-date = April 10, 2020 | date = 27 June 2018 | language = en-US | title = What Does snek Mean? | url = https://dictionary.com/e/memes/snek | website = Dictionary.com }}</ref><ref name="Birb">{{cite news | access-date = October 8, 2022 | date = December 12, 2019 | first1 = Asher | language = en | last1 = Elbein | title = When Is a Bird a 'Birb'? An Extremely Important Guide | url = https://audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide | work = Audubon }}</ref> a human as a ''hooman''<ref>{{cite news | access-date = October 8, 2022 | date = January 16, 2018 | first1 = Missy | last1 = Hannen | title = Dogs remind us to be hooman | url = https://psuvanguard.com/dogs-remind-us-to-be-hooman | work = Vanguard }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | access-date = October 8, 2022 | date = June 22, 2022 | first1 = Shubhi | language = en | last1 = Mishra | title = Adorable video of a doggo waiting for his little hooman at bus stop goes viral. Watch | url = https://indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/adorable-video-of-a-doggo-waiting-for-his-little-hooman-at-bus-stop-goes-viral-watch-1965515-2022-06-22 | work = India Today }}</ref> and a bird as a ''birb''.<ref name="Birb" /> Fat or rotund birds may be called ''borbs'' by influence from orb, while birds with fluffy feathers are referred to as ''floofs''.<ref>{{cite web | access-date = 2024-08-06 | date = 2020-03-10 | language = en | title = What's the Difference Between a 'Borb' and a 'Floof'? {{!}} Audubon | url = https://audubon.org/news/whats-difference-between-borb-and-floof | website = audubon.org }}</ref>
== See also == * Cheems * Doge (meme) * Lolcat * Pepe the Frog
== References == {{reflist}}
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